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Meditation and Poetics - 5 (William Carlos Williams)
[William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) AG: Now, I'll read a couple of poems by William Carlos Williams before generalizingfurther. "Thursday" - How many people know that poem "Thursday"which I read year...
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Meditation and Poetics - 6
["No ideas but in things" - Simon Cutts (1909) neon manifestation of William Carlos Williams' imperative]Student: Allen?AG: Yeah?Student: In that credo of his [William Carlos Williams'] that...
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Meditation and Poetics - 7
Student: Well, sometimes I think it's [the practice of sitting meditation is] unfair.AG: Well, why?Student: I think there's some constructional concepts that you can hold onto, that you don't have...
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Joanne Kyger's 80th Birthday
[Joanne Kyger and Donald Guravich in 2007 - Photograph by Cirrelda Snider-Bryan]The remarkable, wonderful, Joanne Kyger, turns eighty-years-old today! - Impossible to believe! - Happy Birthday, dear...
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Meditation and Poetics - 8
AG: So during that time we were silent, a number of events took place but the major one, I guess, is when that first big breeze blew in with a good deal of sound from the outside -- papers flew a...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 198
Tonight, Allen Ginsberg in the Netherlands/1983 Revisited - Hans Buhrs, Joep Bremmers, Eddie Woods,Jacq Palinckx,The Mondriaan Quartet…..this Sunday at La Commune Cafe in Oakland, California - Michael...
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William Burroughs and Ken Kesey - 1978 at Naropa
[William S Burroughs][Ken Kesey]Vintage audio - William Burroughs and Ken Kesey reading at the Naropa Institute on July 19, 1978Kesey begins/reads firstclick hereKen Kesey: This is a piece called“Abdul...
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The Cassady-Kerouac "Joan Anderson letter" - "the seminal piece of literature...
[Catalog cover for the upcoming (December 17 2014) auction of the Golden Goose Press Archive Collection at Profiles in History, Calabasas, California]The legendary Joan Anderson letter (featured on The...
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Meditation and Poetics - 9
[Allen Ginsberg, 1980 - Photograph by Jan Herman]Allen's class on meditation and poetics (from July 1978) continuesAG: For the purpose of what we're doing in the class, there may be a...
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Meditation and Poetics - 10
[Buddhist Practitioners (students of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche) - Shambhala Training - Land O' Lakes Seminary, 1976, Land O'Lakes, Wisconsin]Student: I just wanted to know...like you're a famous poet,...
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Meditation and Poetics - 11
[Jean-Marc Barr as Jack Kerouac in Michael Polish's 2013 film adaptation of Kerouac's 1962 novel, "Big Sur"]AG: What? Did you…? Student: Yeah. This is making me nervous, but I wanted to say how it...
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Well, it's become something of a tradition itself (an alternative dyspepsic tradition), and in the year of the Burroughs Centennial, we sure as heck weren't going to miss out on this one - William S...
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Friday's Weekly Round-Up - 199 (William Blake's Birthday)
Today is William Blake's birthday. Next Thursday, William Blake - Apprentice and Master, a major exhibition opens at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum (through March 1, 2015). More on that exhibit here and...
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Allen Ginsberg in Glasgow, Scotland, 1973
More vintage video today (courtesy the CCA (Center For Contemporary Arts), Glasgow), documentary footage of Allen's reading at the Scottish Arts Council Building in Blythswood Square, on August 10...
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Ginsberg Rare Video Footage Addenda
Following on from yesterday's posting of Allen in Scotland in 1973, there's a fourth and final video that we omitted, but include today just to give you the complete picture. It consists of...
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Meditation and Poetics - 12
[Allen Ginsberg - Bed Meditation - circa 1960]Continuing this week with Allen's 1978 lectures on Meditation and Poetics Student: Allen, when the thought comes, as I won't try to categorize it, to...
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Meditation and Poetics - 13
Allen Ginsberg’s Meditation and Poetics class continuesAG: Yes?Student: I just wanted to speak to the connection, the connection between the type of poetry you're talking about and sitting,...
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Meditation and Poetics - 14 (Thomas Greaves)
AG: (However,) I wanted to read a couple (of poems)) I want to stay with the breath for a moment. Back to the breath.Thomas Greaves - 1604. You can find this in an Elizabethan Songbook edited by...
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Meditation and Poetics - 15
[Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886]AG: More breath would be in (Percy Bysshe) Shelley. See, now, spirit.. divagating a little.. the reason that's interesting (meditation poetics) is poetry is vocalized....
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Meditation and Poetics - 16
["Rarely, Rarely, Comest Thou Spirit of Delight (Portrait of Keats and Shelley)"- Gregory Corso, c.1994, (31 1/2" x 35"), oil on canvas board; (originally collection of Allen Ginsberg)]AG: Those who...
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